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Royal Hutt River
Dedication Cricket Club is the national cricket team of the Principality of Hutt River.
The team plays annually in the Willowfest Australian Cricket Club
Championships
held in Mildura, Victoria, Australia in December each year.
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Royal Hutt River
Dedication Cricket Club
RHR Dedication’s Willowfest carnival in 2014 ended
with the side taking out it's first ever win in the B Grade competition, the
team finally breaking it's 10yr drought.
Lets hope that this year, the teams 11th year in the competition (7th year
under the PHR Flag), will see back to back wins in order to keep the
winners trophy for another year.
Reporting below thanks to:
Jarryd Mills MIOM
2015 Draw/Result Table
as follows:
Date |
Home Team |
Vs |
Away Team |
RESULT |
Sunday
27th December (10am)
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The Mighty Ducks
|
Vs |
Royal Hutt River Dedication |
RHR Dedication
4/165 - Defeat Mighty Ducks 5/162 |
Monday
28th December (9.30am)
|
Royal Hutt River Dedication |
Vs |
Kangarilla CC |
RHR Dedication
8/149
-
Defeat
Kangarilla CC 7/66 |
Monday 28th
December (1.30pm)
|
South West |
Vs |
Royal Hutt River Dedication |
RHR Dedication 3/120 -
Defeat South West 8/116 |
Tuesday
29th December (10am)
|
Royal Hutt River Dedication |
Vs |
Johnnie Walker XI |
RHR Dedication 4/204 -
Defeat JWXICC 203 |
Wednesday
30th December
FINAL (10am)
|
Royal Hutt River Dedication |
Vs |
Southern Binjara |
Southern Binjara 9/161 - Defeat
RHR Dedication 122 |
Game #1
The Mighty Ducks
Vs
Royal Hutt River Dedication CC
27/12/2015
PHR Dedication began their eleventh Willowfest
carnival matched up against local side ‘Mighty Ducks’.
Stand in Captain Tyler Hankinson lost the toss, and Dedication were sent
into the field.
Despite some very tight bowling from Caleb Garraway and Joel McMahon,
Dedication were unable to break the Ducks opening partnership.
Debutant John Coleman was handed the ball, and was the lucky bowler for
Dedications first ‘silent over’ of 2015.
In perfect silence Coleman was dispatched for 19 runs from his first six
balls, and things were looking grim for Dedication.
Despite outcry from all quarters, Hankinson demonstrated the brave captaincy
for which he has become renowned, and persisted with Coleman.
His faith was rewarded, with Coleman taking two wickets and conceding just
four runs in his next five overs.
Fellow debutant Jason Bruhn also impressed with a wicket of his own -however
his most notable performance with the ball was the Yorker he pitched at (and
fielded from) his own feet, in a failed attempt at leg spin.
Despite these four scalps, Dedication looked to be
in trouble as the Ducks moved into their final ten overs with
well-established batsman at the crease and plenty of firepower left in the
sheds.
Enter Tyler Hankinson - who demonstrated the value of well-flighted spin
bowling.
In a sublime display, Hankinson dismissed the Duck’s opening batman with his
first ball. He then proceeded to run riot through the ducks middle order,
finishing with 5 for 18 - the second best bowling figures in Dedication
history.
Set 163 for victory, Dedication fans were confident
this was well within reach, given the sides stronger than usual batting
line-up.
Both ring ins were dismissed cheaply however, alleviating fears that former
Innes Medal winner, Jason Bruhn, would get lost on the way to Cup grade.
Thankfully, veteran opener Jarryd Mills showed a very cool head, with his
hard running between wickets ticking the scoreboard over.
Unfortunately for Jason Harris, Mills’ hard running forced the detachment of
Harris’ hamstring from the bone, and a distinctly less mobile Harris was
dismissed for 35.
Mills was able to partner with Joel McMahon (15) and Haydn Falconer (37) to
reach the Ducks’ total.
Mills was not out for 52, finally breaking his hoodoo of being dismissed in
the 40s, to reach his first half century for Dedication.
Game #2
Royal
Hutt River Dedication CC
Vs
Kangarilla CC
28/12/2015
Hutt River Dedication’s second match of the 2015 Willowfest tournament
got off to the worst possible start when Captain Tyler Hankinson made the
decision that coffee was more integral to his team’s hopes than cricket
balls.
Thankfully for Hankinson, something on the Irymple deck enticed the
Kangarilla captain, who subsequently elected to field.
Haydn Falconer was reinstated to the top of the batting order in an
attempt to counteract Jarryd Mills’ record-low scoring rate. The move
unfortunately, failed and Falconer was out early.
A second wicket fell soon thereafter, however, fears of a vintage
Dedication collapse were soon put to rest when boom recruit, Ben Aworth
came to the crease.
Aworth belted the young Kangarilla attack to all parts of Henshilwood Oval
on his way to a magnificent 73.
He was supported ably by the middle order, with Warren Sparkes showing why
he was recruited for day two and Tyler Hankinson making a cameo 15 to
close the innings at 8/149.
Dedication’s first ball in the field was one that hadn’t been seen in
their history, with Hankinson handing the ball to spinner, Brendan
McCarthy.
The Kangarilla batsman patted the first ball back into the pitch, with
McCarthy bowling well to his 9-0 field.
Pandemonium ensued during the following ball, with the Kangarilla batsman
bunting the ball through Ian McMahon’s legs at gully and taking off for a
non-existent single.
Hankinson quickly fired the ball in to Mills and Kangarilla had lost their
first wicket, a diamond duck no less.
Caleb Garraway and Joel McMahon did an excellent job containing the
Kangarilla batsmen and, despite Dedication still only having the one
wicket after the opening spell, the game was all but over, with the
Kangarilla batsmen unable to pierce the field.
Dedication’s lack of Horse’s Arse points continued in game two.
However, when Joel McMahon was called upon as the designated fielder,
Falconer pounced on the ball like a tiger, despite Hankinson making the
call from directly next to him. He subsequently reverted to his football
skills in frustration.
With wickets proving hard to come by Hankinson made the bold decision to
turn to his secret weapon, Ian McMahon.
McMahon started his spell tidily, drawing an early edge, however, Mills
spilled the easy chance behind the stumps.
McMahon may have thought it wasn’t his day, but the following four
deliveries will go down in Hutt River Dedication folklore.
Sensing a weakness in the batsman at the non-striker’s end, McMahon gave
up a single to get his bunny on strike.
The next ball was flighted perfectly, with the batsman spooning the ball
to Falconer at mid-on, who made no mistake.
The new batsman came out full of confidence, batting well out of his
crease. McMahon again deceived, beating the edge.
This time Mills was clean enough to take the ball and whip the bails off.
With McMahon on a hat-trick, Hankinson brought the field in, leaving gaps
everywhere.
McMahon flighted it up, coaxing the batsman to swing hard through the
ball.
Although it cleared the infield, it was skied and Joel McMahon was parked
under it, for what seemed an eternity.
However, with the threat of being disowned, Joel clung to the skied catch
to give Dedication its first ever hat trick.
Hankinson, seeking cheap wickets to add to his haul on day one, came on to
finish the innings.
Although he didn’t have much success with the ball, he did manage to
deflect a straight drive back onto the stumps at the non-striker’s end to
give Kangarilla its second diamond duck of the innings.
Royal Hutt River Dedication came away comfortable victors: RHRDCC 8/149
def Kangarilla 7/66
Game #3
South West
Vs
Royal Hutt River Dedication CC
28/12/2015
Game three against South West may be the game that's decides this years
horses arse award for 2015.
It started like any other game with Tyler losing another toss and being
told to have a bowl.
New recruit Lachlan 'Giddy' Rohde was given the
honour of first ball which was duly dispatched for four.
This noticeably angered Giddy, who two balls later dispatched his stumps in
turn.
After another wicket to the new recruit, and some tight bowling by
McCarthy (1-15) and Joel McMahon (0-17), South West were struggling to get
going.
It was at this point that the Dedication of old came back with some
atrocious fielding that resulted in 6 dropped catches and countless
misfields.
Despite this, Ian McMahon (2-13) continued his bamboozling deliveries
bowling one of the top batsman through his legs (to this point no one
truly knows how that actually happened).
Some great death bowling by Giddy (4-33) and Caleb Galloway (0-29)
restricted the opposition to 116 from their allotted 20 overs with little
assistance from their fielders it must be said.
It must be noted that despite Adam Burke's seemingly below-par fielding (2
dropped catches) and subsequent betting plunge on his horse arse odds, he
was able to hit their best bowlers bowling arm from a rocket throw from
the boundary, significantly reducing South West's bowling fire power.
The Dedication innings started poorly with both Burke and Falconer failing
to take flight to the much improved bowling of South West.
Despite the insistence of the skipper, Warren Sparkes refused to pad up
due to the perceived extreme pace of the opposition bowling even without
their fastest bowler.
This did not deter McCarthy and Mills however, with both of them putting
up a solid partnership with Mills flourishing against the extra pace on
offer.
After McCarthy (26) was added to the "run out by Millsy club", Giddy came
to the crease and looked good until he skied a dolly straight to the
keeper.
Joel McMahon was already up and walking to come on, however much to
everyone's disbelief the keeper didn't even get a glove on it!!
This ended up being the defining moment of the match with Giddy (33) and
Mills (42) putting the bowlers to the sword with some brutal cricket and
baseball shots.
Royal Hutt River Dedication ended up reaching the target with ease, where
once again a late call up player provided a man of the match performance.
Game #4
Royal Hutt River Dedication CC
Vs
Johnnie Walker XI
29/12/2015
The highly anticipated RHR Dedication match up
against traditional rivals, the Johnnie Walker XI was set to be a
blockbuster.
In the 5 previous meetings, wins had been traded, with RHR Dedication
having the overall edge, 3-2, after the thrilling one run win in 2012.
After the cricket ball drama of day two, proceedings started shakily, with
Tyler Hankinson seemingly losing one of the two remaining match balls. The
ball was, ironically, found in Hankinson’s box.
Hankinson went with his usual captaincy ploy of losing the toss and JWXI
skipper, Matt Barclay elected to field.
In an attempt to allay fears that Hankinson’s two recruits had got lost on
their way to cup grade, opening bowler Adam Hunichen conceded 12 runs
before a legitimate ball was bowled in a lengthy opening over.
Hunichen recovered to bowl a tight opening spell, removing JWXI opener,
Simon O’Shea.
Although the RHR Dedication bowler’s didn’t have a lot of success taking
wickets early on, they did manage to restrict the scoring.
However, once both openers had been removed, Travis Murdoch and Vaughan
Garner started to increase the scoring rate, despite their obvious
deficiencies against the short ball.
These deficiencies were exploited brilliantly by RHR Dedication recruit,
James Davey, dismissing Murdoch and JWXI gun batsman, Michael Dann, in
quick succession adding to his dismissal of Chris Barclay.
JWXI set about increasing the scoring rate with Josh O’Dwyer and Andrew
Dowell’s unique slogging techniques.
Eventually both batsmen fell and Hankinson turned back to Hunichen to
finish the job, who finished with the surprisingly economical figures of
3-26 off his full allotment of 10 overs.
After Clinton Murdoch nudged his way into the 20s, Hankinson turned to
slow bowler Jack Leo to clean up the tail, who finished with 2-12 off his
2 overs.
JWXI finished on the first 200+ score in a PHR Dedication v JWXICC
showdown, bowled out for 203.
The halfway mark of the match called for some mad scrambling from both
parties, evaluating Nett Run Rates and “Nett Run Rates” before it was
finally decided that RHR Dedication needed at least 147 runs, or 181 runs,
with the rulebook contradicting the mycricket website calculation. Even
event organiser, Anthony Telfer, could not give a straight answer.
RHR Dedication’s innings started with the traditional “Trevor Chappell”
delivery, with Jarryd Mills blocking the Clinton Murdoch delivery and
subsequently hurling his bat much further than he can actually hit a ball.
Trying not to give the impression that he didn’t get lost on his way to
cup grade, James Davey edged into the cordon early, with the score at just
7.
Mills was joined by Hunichen, with the two combining for a solid second
wicket stand.
Mills nudged in his usual fashion, with Hunichen showing that he’s not a
one trick pony, showing a great balance between power, including an
enormous six down the ground, and deft touch.
Mills eventually fell for 30, with the score on 92.
The Dedication middle order looked shaky, losing regular wickets, with the
one highlight an enormous six hit by day three recruit, Jeremy Aworth.
Hunichen, however, batted on and on and was joined late in the innings by
Joel McMahon, who supported him ably (31).
When Hunichen had reached RHR Dedication’s highest individual score of 91
(scored by McMahon some years prior), McMahon did his level best to rob
Hunichen of the sole honour.
Hunichen, however, held his nerve between the wickets and with bat in hand
to guide RHR Dedication home to a crushing victory and scoring RHR
Dedication’s first every century, finishing on 110 not out.
RHR Dedication came out victors 4/204 (42.5) v JWXICC 203 (48.5)
NOTE:
Tomorrow, Dec 30 will see the Royal Hutt River Dedication Cricket Club
face it's first ever Grand Final at 10am.
HRH Prince Leonard and all of us here in the
Principality congratulate the team on it's achievements thus far in the
2015 tournament.
We wish the team well for the final tomorrow and especially congratulate
the teams new recruit
Adam Hunichen on scoring the clubs first ever century, in fact 110 NOT
OUT!
Grand
Final
#5
Royal Hutt River Dedication CC
Vs
Southern Binjara
30/12/2015
Royal Hutt River Dedication faced off against
Southern Binjara in the Willowfest Grand Final in a clash that saw two
teams loaded with players who had gotten lost on the way to cup grade.
Captain Hankinson arrived on time, with the ball and finally won the toss.
He then had to win a second toss after the Binjara captain contested the
result of the first, sending them in to bat.
Binjara, keen to test the RHR Dedication bowlers out over 50 overs did not
count on having to face 10 angry Joel McMahon overs.
Filthy that his father had taken more wickets than him during the
tournament, McMahon put on a clinic, dismissing some quality batsman in a
10 over 4/23 performance.
Supported ably by Hunichen (2/26) Binjara were really under the pump at
5/32.
Leo and Hankinson chipped in with a wicket each, and at 9/77 RHR
Dedication needed to put just one final nail in the Binjara coffin.
Sadly, a valiant 83 run final wicket partnership (where nothing of note –
especially dropped catches – occurred) resurrected the Binjara innings,
with a defendable 160 on the board at the end of the innings.
RHR Dedication started their batting knock shakily, with Mills, McCarthy
and I. McMahon departing cheaply.
When day four centurion Hunichen was dismissed for just two runs, RHR
Dedication were reeling at 4/29.
Thankfully Davey was able to take on the Binjara bowlers, with a 37 run
partnership with Jeremy Aworth.
Sadly the partnership was cut short with the suicidal runout of Davey for
38, a runout that can be best described in the words of Dedication
stalwart, Chris Hope . . . . . . . .‘Oh dear’.
Arworth battled on manfully, either because he really wanted to win the
game, or really didn’t want to head to the sheds to face the wrath of an
angry Davey. Either way, he pushed the score to 99 with a strong knock of
31.
Despite some brave defensive batting by Joel McMahon, RHR Dedication were
all out for 122 in a somewhat disappointing batting result given the
strong position the side had in the field.
All in all, second place was very strong performance for a team that
struggled for numbers at the start of the carnival.
TROPHIES
The winner of the 2015 Sovereigns 'Most Developed
Player' trophy was :
Jarryd Mills MIOM
The winner of the 'Horses Arse' Trophy was :
Tyler Hankinson
(PHOTOS BELOW!)
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